We performed a comparison between Tableau and Yellowfin based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."When compared to Power BI, Tableau has more readily available resources."
"The most valuable feature is the aggregation function."
"You are able to see and follow trends."
"The initial setup is quick and easy and you don't need special outside assistance to set everything up."
"This service is the combination of very pleasant, interactive graphical visualizations along with the application of advanced statistical models (in some cases)."
"I love the customization skills that Tableau has, it is not restricted to what is built-in already."
"Technical support has been responsive."
"Tableau is highly scalable. Now that they've introduced Hyper, you can create an extract of more than 5 million rows in minutes and then do your analysis."
"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."
"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."
"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."
"The only issue with the solution is with its prices at a regional level."
"The architecture should be improved to better handle the data."
"The user experience for less savvy or non-technical people (from my experience)."
"The ability to use it on MAC machines. As far as I know, this is not possible."
"We did have issues with Tableau 10.1 server with the brokers failing on heavy load but since moving to 10.2, then to 10.3, this issue seems to have been resolved and the environment is now quite stable."
"Bursting email is needed to deliver the reports to many people in their inboxes and this functionality is not provided by Tableau."
"The customization requires a lot of effort and should be simplified. The performance could be better."
"I think Tableau could be improved with cheaper or more flexible licensing, though this is a generic improvement and applies for any product. It would be better if they had more flexible payment and licensing plans so that they could suit small- and mid-sized organizations."
"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."
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Tableau is ranked 2nd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 291 reviews while Yellowfin is ranked 36th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools. Tableau is rated 8.4, while Yellowfin is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Yellowfin writes "Very scalable design and easy to implement. It can reside alongside more complex enterprise systems". Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Databricks, whereas Yellowfin is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset, 9 Spokes and SAP Crystal Reports.
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